Emby (Minor) Issues running on Roku

[DePetris 2]

Playlists have a sort buttion that does nothing when pressed. In web app this works normally.

Could you make any list into a instant playlist. Example, I sort the Movies list and want to start at the 10th movie. Would like it to ask like it does in a real playlist, (Resume)(Resume and play all from here)(Play)(Play all from here) Currently you can only start playing the first item or random. This should work for any type of library listing. 

I use Emby everyday. Thank you making the best app to watch content with.

[speechles 2055]

This part on the Roku was never finished. The web app did not allow sorting the playlists at that time and we were told to wait. The sort button is just a stub presently. We must've forgotten to hide those stubbed buttons until they had code that reacted with them. The group button also shows up and should only show up with collections. I can add this to our tracker to finish the sort for playlists.

Reference: Issue #1746: [DetailsListView] Finish adding sort ability to playlists (sort button is already showing up but does nothing)

You should be able to play from any spot in the playlist by just moving the focus down to the item you wish to start with and pressing OK. Then choose play all from here. Or just press the Play button on the item and it should assume play all from here.

Are you trying to play these from the grid or the details view? Can you show a screenshot so we know which screen you are doing this from? Thanks.

 

Edited November 14, 2025 by speechles

[DePetris 2]

 

The options show Resume or Play but not Resume all and Play all. The second image shows while watching, the next movie button is grayed out.

This is while I'm a movie listing. Let me know if you need any more info. I'm thinking this could be something added in your next major release. 

 

[speechles 2055]

You mean you found the movie and you expected it to play the next one knowing it was part of a playlist? How did you get to the detail view with that item? Did you get there through a playlist? Is that item part of a playlist? If so you can move down from those buttons and it should show below the cast row in a row called "Included In" and if you enter the playlist view and use play all from there or pick one of the items it should work as designed.

 

[DePetris 2]

No its not a playlist. I'm asking for new functionality that would turn any list into an instant playlist. So for example in a movie listing I can select the 10th movie and it would continue on after playing the selected movie. Nothing is broken, just a request for a future version. . 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, isn’t that what the play all from here function does in the context menu?

 We probably haven’t added that to Roku in quite as many places as we have in our other apps.

[DePetris 2]

Currently I can play all but only from the first listing, or play random. I'm looking for the way it works in an actual playlist but in any location that media is listed. Maybe I sort and filter the list and I want to be able to start playing the list from any item like a playlist does and keeping playing the list. See playlist image below... So to be clear have the option shown below pop up anywhere their is a media list.

 

Thank you for your attention.

 

[ebr 16169]

4 hours ago, DePetris said:

So to be clear have the option shown below pop up anywhere their is a media list.

Hi.  We do that when it is inherently an ordered list (like a playlist).  However, we don't when it is just a normal "view" of a group of items (like in a library or folder).  This is because 99% of the time someone hitting the play button will want to play that item and we don't want to force an extra click to do that.

So, to get what you want will require a context menu in the Roku app.  That is something we've got in early design stage but isn't a common thing in Roku apps so it hasn't been fleshed out yet.

Thanks.